Leftovers

NRA

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*John is running for an NRA Board position. He’s on the right side. You can help with a petition here.

Enemies

• Lumumba Sayers Sr., a former MMA fighter and an anti-gun activist whose son was killed last year, has been arrested for murder in Denver after allegedly killing a man to avenge his son’s death. Sayers Sr. is accused of shooting the man in the head during a child’s birthday party last Saturday evening. The victim was allegedly a friend of the suspect in the Sayers Jr. killing.
• JAMA. In what may be the worst study ever published by The Journal of the American Medical Association during its entire 141-year history, a trio of idjit (yes, that’s my word) anti-gun researchers now claims deer hunting is associated with a substantial increase in firearm violence.

Election

• VP candidates & guns.

• GOP VP candidate JD Vance has changed his names several times. Here’s the story, just FYI. Nothing to do with guns.

“Tim Walz lied when he said, ‘No one wants to take your guns…'”

• The Democratic National Committee has revealed its party platform draft with more proposed gun control, including universal background checks (ban on private sales), safe storage requirements, bans on “assault weapons” [sic] and “high-capacity” [sic] magazines, repealing the PLCAA, a national “Red Flag” law, increased funding for the ATF, the FBI NICS system, and CDC “gun violence” [sic] research. We note that the platform was concocted for President Biden, not VP Harris, and Harris is worse than Biden on guns.
• 88 percent of likely voters rated guns as a factor in how they planned to vote, and Kamala Harris is three points ahead of Donald Trump nationwide.
• Trump good; Biden bad. Simple. John Lott.

Litigation

• The Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a petition for a rehearing in a Second Amendment Foundation case, Worth v. Harrington, which found Minnesota’s ban on carry permits for young adults ages 18-20 is unconstitutional. We note that Democrat VP candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed the defective legislation.
• The Second Amendment Foundation, joined by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and a private citizen, has filed a petition for certiorari to the US Supreme Court in its continuing challenge of a ban on modern semiautomatic rifles in the state of Maryland.  The petition was filed after the Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously ruled that modern semiautomatic rifles are not protected by the Second Amendment because they are “too similar” to the fully-automatic M16 military rifle.  But civilian ownership of military rifles is protected by the Second Amendment.  The case is Bianchi v. Frosh.
• A three judge panel in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed its initial stay against the injunction on California’s one-gun-a-month law. The injunction is now wholly in place, blocking California from enforcing its gun control scheme to limit legal gun purchases to one per 30-day period. We also have a report that functionally it is really a 40-day period due to a 10-day waiting period for each purchase, which is tacked on to the 30-day limit. We are still awaiting a decision, but a report indicates that upholding that summary judgment means California now needs to request a writ of certiorari from the US Supreme Court and these are usually rejected unless other appellate courts come to different conclusions. Or perhaps it could go to an en banc hearing before the Ninth Circuit. The case is Nguyen v. Bonta.
• US District Court Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett of the Central District of California has issued a preliminary injunction against the California law preventing out-of-state residents from applying for a concealed carry permit and ordered California to accept concealed carry applications from out-of-state residents. This is the second time a jurisdiction has been forced to issue out-of-state concealed carry permits this month. New York City just passed an emergency order to issue permits to non-New York residents to avoid a lawsuit by Gun Owners of America. The judge could have mandated reciprocity with other states, but she stopped short of ordering that. The judge also ruled that the waiting time (18 months) was too long and unconstitutional. California is expected to appeal the injunction to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and request a stay on the judge’s ruling. The case is CRPA v. Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
• I don’t think we need a court decision to tell cops not to steal. What we need is thieves to be shot or locked up.
• A Texas jury found the parents of a school attacker not liable for negligence on Monday in a civil trial brought in connection with the 2018 shootings at Santa Fe High School. The parents had seen no “warning signs” that their son was a threat and were not criminally charged. The civil jury found the killer himself – who was 17 at the time – liable and awarded the plaintiffs more than $300 million. The jury said that of the conduct that led to the shootings, 80% was attributable to the killer and 20% was attributable to Lucky Gunner, an online retailer that sold the boy ammunition without verifying his age. Lucky Gunner was not a respondent in the case and had no damages assigned by this case. Last year Lucky Gunner reached a settlement with families that sought to exclude it from having to make any more payments.
• Anatomy of a Self-Defense Trial (with a corrupt judiciary). Read it.
• Originalism in the courts and the Second Amendment.
  • In my black-robed dissent, I again say that Heller‘s originalist test of consistency with history and tradition is wrong. Just because an old law or practice existed doesn’t mean that it was constitutional, and just because a law is new doesn’t mean it is not constitutional. There’s a deeper dive here if you have the time. 35 pages. Click on one of the buttons at the bottom of the linked page to see the paper.

NRA

• NY Court Update And Some Suggestions
• The Special Litigation Committee’s Two-Cents

ATF

• Gunwalker: Fast & Furious. Thought you’d heard the end of it, didn’t you? Nope.
• ATF Creates Arbitrary 90-day Window to Return Bump Stocks to Original Owners. I don’t think so, Tim. Never mind that it took ATF FIVE YEARS to return David Codrea’s bump stock to him.

Enemies

• No Irish Need Apply
• YouTube

The Only Ones

• Last week, a 43-year-old former Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Reserve officer who retired in May is believed to have shot his family, killing his wife and himself, and wounding his two teenage daughters in what police believe was domestic-related murder-suicide.
• Former Long Beach, California, school safety officer Eddie Gonzalez has pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter nearly three years after he was charged with murder for fatally shooting an 18-year-old woman as she tried to flee a physical altercation.

DGUs

• Armed Citizen Saves Abducted Child
• SELF-DEFENSE: Boy who killed Cape Coral mother’s boyfriend will not be charged
• Georgia Burglars Confronted By Armed Citizen, Shot By Police
• Pennsylvania Homeowner Cleared in Justified Shooting of a Home Invader in the Face ~ VIDEO
• The Armed Citizen:
  • American Rifleman – August 16, 2024
  • American Rifleman – August 19, 2024

Not a DGU

• Why We Carry: Man Follows Woman Into QuikTrip Bathroom, Kills Her With Hammer

Tactics & Stuff

• Crime avoidance.
• Fat boy CCW. I think this one might be a rerun.
• Rifle Tips for Fighting Around a Car.
• Facing the Active Killer. Dave Spaulding.

Products

• Redneck Rattle: For those who didn’t know, we recently became first-time grandparents. Well the baby was at our house the other day and Momma forgot his rattle. So Papaw made him one. You might recall me once telling you how to make a free waterproof container for strike-anywhere matches out of shotgun shell hulls. Same thing. Take a 20 gauge and a 16 gauge empty shell and cut the crimped end parts off clean so they will telescope together. Make sure it’s a tight fit – you may have to try a few different brand hull combinations (or you can glue them). Drop in a few steel BBs, assemble, wash well, and viola – the Redneck Rattle. (Not responsible for lead poisoning, choking or good ol’ boy antics should you decide to copy me.) Mamma says it’s the only toy he plays with and Daddy says make us another one.

• The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute, Inc., (SAAMI), has announced the acceptance of the 5.7 X 28 FN centerfire pistol and revolver cartridge. The cartridge features a 40-grain bullet traveling at a velocity of 1,750 fps from a 5-inch test barrel and a Maximum Average Pressure of 48,500 psi.
• Want a little bitty hideout gun? Here ya go.
• A friend who cannot currently carry at his waistline found a chest holster rig he likes so much he says he will buy more. There are several holster styles but I noticed the gun fit selection is limited and the belt loops on waist belt models aren’t adjustable. Check ’em out at Gunfightersinc.com (H/T Andy).
• Real Avid has a gunsmith vise accessory to hold your cell phone for you while you work on your gun. What has the world come to?
• MTM Case-Guard has centerfire pistol 50-round tough plastic ammo boxes on which the lid slides back to uncover a row of 5-rounds at a time, similar to the hard plastic CCI rimfire boxes. Two sizes: 9mm family & .45 ACP family, listing a total of 17 cartridges.
• Hydra Weaponry’s new AR-ish Hydra MARCK-15 9mm H17 rifle accepts magazines from any GLOCK model 17, 19, 26, 34, 45, and 48 pistol, including the new Gens. $1400+.
• FN vs. SA-35 Browning Hi Power comparison
• Shoot .22 Shorts in your 10/22. $30 magazines.
• Ammo: Federal Hydra-Shok